Judge Sonia Sotomayor was targeted by gunman, federal judge says ’60 minutes’

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was targeted by gunman, federal judge says ’60 minutes’

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Salas said authorities found a dossier on Sotomayor in a box used by the attacker, Roy Den Hollander, a lawyer who had a case before Salas and committed suicide after killing her son Daniel.

“They found another rifle, a Glock, more ammunition. But the most worrying thing they found was a manila paper with a rework on Justice Sonia Sotomayor,” Salas said in the interview.

A spokesman for the Supreme Court declined to comment on the report and said the court did not discuss safety as a matter of court policy.

Chief Justice John Roberts did not directly comment on the attack, but has spoken out in the past about security concerns and issued a rare reprimand to then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for criticizing Judges Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch over the court steps 2020.

“Judges know that criticism is coming in this area, but threatening rulings from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate but dangerous,” Roberts said at the time.

Salas and others are working to pass legislation that will protect the personally identifiable information of judges from publishing on public websites.

“Who knows what could have happened?” Salas told CBS. “But we must understand that judges are in danger. That we put ourselves in great danger every day because we are doing our job.”

James Duff, then director of the U.S. Courts Administrative Office, told Congress last year that there were 4,449 threats and inappropriate communications in 2019, compared to 926 such incidents in 2015, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

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